SILT

Una mierda, super lento todo

引导较弱但真好玩

Silt is a game with a fairly short half-life. Its atmosphere is brilliant: a magnificently claustrophobic deep-sea world full of creepy, jagged-toothed gribblies. Narrow rock corridors give way to large, gloomy expanses, and armed with little more than a scuba lamp and a pair of flippers, there is very little to protect you from the dark. Sadly, the slightly awkward and one-dimensional gameplay undermines that atmosphere. As the central mechanic (absorbing the souls and skills of deep-water creatures) becomes more complex, the initially delicate navigation of the ocean becomes frustrating. Too often, you know exactly what needs doing, but the game seems to find small ways to stop you doing it. A fish does not fade in and out of existence consistently. An eel takes forever and a day to turn around. An exploding anemone brushes an edge and detonates. Some of this ponderousness is clearly intentional. Silt wants you to feel vulnerable, slow, and alien in the deep. But there is a thin line between oppressive and irritating, and the game crosses it often enough to break the spell. The sparse storyline, submerged architecture, monochrome abyss, and strange mechanical-organic stylings all combine to create something curiously creative. Yet when simply getting from A to B becomes a chore, the abyss stops being mesmerising and starts becoming, sadly, annoying.